Reply #8: What the hell does this sentence mean? [View All]

[Zensea]

"However, having lived outside of America during its turbulent decades of the Jim Crow era and legal segregation, Obama may not know on a visceral and lived experienced level what those decades had been like for African-Americans."

One, he lived outside the US for 4 years (from the ages of 2 to 6).
Two, he was born in 1961. The Jim Crow era basically started coming to an end with Brown in 1954.
Anyone who lived in the United States who was born in 1961 or later didn't live during the Jim Crow era.

This is either sloppy writing in terms of research or an unjustified dig.
When I see stuff like that it tends to make me discount whatever points the writer is making, however justified, because I immediately mistrust the author's objectivity and credence.